Amanda Seyfried: Her Allure Photo Shoot

We go behind the scenes with the uncensored actress: She chats happily about what it's like to film a sex scene or see an ex-boyfriend pop up in the gossip columns. Check out these exclusive photos from her shoot with photographer Patrick Demarchelier at Golden Oak Ranch in California.

Seyfried tried on a lot of dresses at our shoot but ultimately fell in love with this floral one by Zac Posen. "It gave some shape up here—they're assets," she said of the resulting cleavage. She once referred to her breasts in an interview as "sacks of fat," a description that she now reconsiders. "Actually, I saw a picture a couple of days ago from when I was 19, and my boobs were way bigger. They were a D, and now they're a small C, because I lost weight," she says. "There was something so beautiful about the size of them. When I look back, I'm like, Why did I always give myself such a hard time?"

Seyfried is unfussy, relatable, and likable. She uploaded this photograph from our shoot to Instagram, and surprised our reporter with how laid-back she was at their lunchtime interview on a later date. When her salad arrived with a very long, not-blonde hair in it, she felt bad sending it back—and when the new salad came out, she wasn't afraid to joke about it. "Do you want a little more hair in this one?" the cute waiter asked her. "Oh, yeah," she says dryly. "Please."

For this look—the Allure cover shot—makeup artist Fulvia Farolfi created a feminine and slightly flushed look for the actress. She dusted pewter eye shadow from the lash lines to the creases and blended a golden pink eye shadow in the creases and inner corners. She finished with a bit of dark brown eye shadow and brown liner and mascara. Then she swirled a pink blush along Seyfried's cheeks and enhanced her "perfect, full lips" with a mix of sheer nude-pink and berry lipsticks. Silk dress by Nina Ricci.

Hairstylist Teddy Charles worked a styling lotion through Seyfried's hair and blow-dried it, adding volume with a big round brush. He gave her a loose center part and simply let the hair fall, flatironing the ends to smooth down any flyaways. Cotton eyelet dress by Dolce & Gabbana.

Seyfried has had many dramatic roles—most recently, in Les Misérables—but fans still mainly approach her because of her role as the Plastic Karen in Mean Girls. Fortunately, her love for the film hasn't waned. She's been feverishly following news of a possible musical adaptation on Broadway. "I desperately want to be Regina," she says. When they were shooting, she had a great admiration for the film's lead, Lindsay Lohan, though they weren't really friends. "She's talented." A pause. "Was." Another pause. "I mean, I don't know.... She was so bright-eyed." Here, hairstylist Teddy Charles fans her hair for just the right windblown effect.

The actress turns back to comedy now with The Big Wedding. She's well aware of the talents of the women who paved the way for her—and sensitive to the old notion that pretty girls can't be funny. "That shouldn't be, because what about Goldie Hawn?" she says. "She's awesome. She should be making more movies."

Seyfried tends to be outspoken in interviews. But instead of seeming starved for attention, she simply comes off as unfiltered. "I don't have an edit button," she admits. She's a funny and raunchy oversharer who is forever divulging eyebrow-raising details about herself, like how she used her experience playing Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace in Lovelace to help her Les Miz singing performance. "Imagine deep-throating a penis, get that feeling in the back of your throat, and then sing. That's where your larynx is."

The experience of playing Linda Lovelace seems to have changed Seyfried in ways big and small. "Maybe this is backwards, but because she found the power in herself and in her body at a point, it made me feel comfortable in my own skin in a way that I hadn't been," says the actress. "I've got parts of me that I wish were tighter, but I don't kill myself, because it's not worth it."